The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has stormed to the top of the U.S. box office - setting a December record in the process.
The movie took $84.7 million in its opening weekend to easily topple Skyfall from the #1 spot.
An Unexpected Journey is now the biggest movie to open in December - beating the record that was previously held by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Animation movie Rise of the Guardians was a none mover at two while Lincoln moved up a place to number three.
The biopic about Abraham Lincoln finished last week on a high as it led the Golden Globe nominations.
Skyfall fell three places this week to number four and has so far taken in excess of $951 million at the global box office.
Life Of Pi stayed put at five while The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 dropped three places to six.
Wreck-It-Ralph was the third none mover of the week as it remained at seven for another week while Playing For Keeps fell two to number eight.
Red Dawn was down one at nine while Silver Linings Playbook was up one to round off the top ten.
1. (-) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - $84.775 million
2. (2) Rise of the Guardians - $7.42 million
3. (4) Lincoln - $7.244 million
4. (1) Skyfall - $7 million
5. (5) Life of Pi - $5.4 million
6. (3) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 - $5.175 million
7. (7) Wreck-It Ralph - $3.273 million
8. (6) Playing for Keeps - $3.247 million
9. (8) Red Dawn - $2.394 million
10. (11) Silver Linings Playbook - $2.084 million
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